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In 1878 Pope Leo XIII signed the Letters Apostolic which gave effect to the restoration of the hierarchy within the Catholic Church of Scotland. There were six new dioceses, of which two were archdioceses: that of St Andrews and Edinburgh, the metropolitan see, and that of Glasgow, which obtained the titular status of archbishopric until it obtained sufrragan sees. The Glasgow Archdiocese's territory included Glasgow city and the counties of Ayr (part), Dumbarton, Lanark, Renfrew, Stirling (part) and the islands of Greater and Little Cumbrae. These areas had formerly been within the Western District or Vicariate, one of three Districts or Vicariates into which the Catholic Church in Scotland had been divided from 1827 to 1878.
In 1947 the Archdiocese of Glasgow was transformed into a regular ecclesiastical province by two Apostolic Constitutions of Pope Pius XII. It now consisted of the Archdiocese of Glasgow (confined to the city of Glasgow and the county of Dumbarton), and two suffragan sees: the Diocese of Motherwell (consisting of the county of Lanark) and the Diocese of Paisley (consisting of the county of Renfrew). The northern part of Ayrshire with the Cumbrae Isles was transferred to the Diocese of Galloway.
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